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Native Instana Support for Oracle GoldenGate (On-Prem & OCI)

Oracle GoldenGate (OGG) is a mission-critical replication technology widely used in financial services, retail, and telco customers. Today, Instana does not have a native sensor for OGG, which forces customers to rely on custom scripts, Prometheus...
21 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

We would like to request an increase in the current limit (400) of Kafka Topics that can be displayed in the Instana UI.

The Instana UI currently has a limitation of displaying up to 400 Kafka Topics. However, in our production environment, we expect to configure more than 1,000 Topics. Since all of these Topics are important for our operations, it is necessary for ...
21 days ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Submitted

Version field for Instances in Cloudability

Multiple tenants requested the OS Version field of the Instances as they will use the below combination of dimensions and metrics to create custom KPI's for reporting. This was already used with our previous tool and the lack of the OS Version inf...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 2 Submitted

AWS Observer extension to include Role based authentication along with current local-user option.

AWS Observer extension to include Role based authentication along with current local-user option.
5 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

AWS Observer extension to cover Transit Gateways, Direct Connects and Direct -Connect Gateways.

AWS Observer extension to cover Transit Gateways, Direct Connects and Direct -Connect Gateways.
5 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Support for ElasticSearch v8.18 and higher

Currently, Instana Sensor supports until v8.17.1 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.299?topic=technologies-monitoring-elasticsearch#configuration. ElasticSearch has already moved to v9.x and Instana support for ElasticSearch has...
21 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Request to Remove the 400-Topic Limit for Kafka Metrics Collection in Instana Agent

Currently, Instana Agent imposes a limit of 400 topics for Kafka metrics collection. We would like to kindly request that this restriction be relaxed or removed. In the system we are currently building, the number of topics is expected to reach ap...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Submitted

Request for Kafka Partition-Level Metrics Collection in Instana

Currently, Instana does not provide the ability to collect Kafka metrics at the partition level. For example, it is not possible to monitor the backlog of messages for each partition. If such information cannot be obtained directly in Instana, it ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Submitted

Enable Events, Alerts, and Dashboards for OracleDB Custom Polling Metrics

Currently, Instana does not support creating Events, Alerts, or Custom Dashboards based on the OracleDB custom polling metrics documented here: Monitoring OracleDB. Several of our clients who use OracleDB have requested the ability to leverage the...
4 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

setup limits by default to t8c-operator

Telefónica customer is very sensitive to the security and stability of its systems.